Joe Pelt

MD-PhD @ Tri-I Cornell, Landau lab. Building sequencing tech to study how age-related (epi)genomic changes cause cancer. Previous: U Oxford, FSU.

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“Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that the son of a mine worker can become the head of the mine, that a child of farm workers can become the president of a great nation.

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Things I learned in March

Your habits become your life. Your life is defined by your habits. And then you die (no one is coming to change your habits for you.)

Adulthood brings more responsibility. It’s easy to feel heavy and bogged down by duties and tasks. But lightness + youthful positivity are still attainable

Working out 6-7 days per week feels way better than only 3-4 days per week.

Scrolling twitter evokes a dangerously unnatural wide range of emotions by exposing you to a dangerously wide range of content

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Happiness doesn't live on the other side of the next thing

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"If you can’t be happy with a coffee, you won’t be happy with a yacht."

@naval

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Two things since ChatGPT dropped have felt like genuine ChatGPT-level moments: Claude Code and now this

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Step inside Project Genie: our experimental research prototype that lets you create, edit, and explore virtual worlds. 🌎

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@kenbwork @BiotechMongoose How dare you gain deeper insight about a key biologic principle!

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Things I learned in 2025

90% of suffering is mental.

It’s easy to become a reader if you just start by reading 10 minutes per day.

Checking your phone multiple times per day is the key to having a distracted, fragmented mind. A new sense of flow is achieved when you put your phone away for extended periods.

It’s possible to produce great work without muscling every move.

Being stressed stresses others. Being calm calms others. Peace multiplies peace.

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@MHosmanMD @AACR @FaltasLab @WeillCornell @WCMDeptofMed @WCMGUcancer Congrats Mohamed! So exciting.

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@michelle_monje Super super cool

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The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise

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The best thing about ChatGTP is that it was built to be useful instead of addictive

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@MajdAssaad @WCMCPathology Legend! Congrats, Majd

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@noampomsky Agreed. Creative ideas come from obsessively simulating new possibilities in your head until you hit silver, and then obsessively reiterating that silver idea until it becomes gold

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@ElementoLab Super cool!

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@michelle_monje @TaraBarronPhD This is so so so cool

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@saranormous excluding cancer genomics

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@TischCancer @FrancoIzzo85 @ASH_hematology @IcahnMountSinai One of the greatest + smartest people I’ve met in my life… Congrats, @FrancoIzzo85!

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@samcjordan_ @nwilliams030 + santi comes so we can play chess

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“Good and evil both increase at compound interest... the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance. The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, months later, you may go on to victories you never dreamed of."